Abandoned Old Cruise Ships

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Abandoned old cruise ships. A 3rd cruise ship that was operated by the defunct CMV-Cruise and Maritime Voyages is heading to Indias Alang scrap yard. In December 4 1989 the Mesquite grounded on a reef off the Keeweenaw Peninsula. Azamara Pursuit entered service as R8 the final ship in Renaissance Cruises R-class.

The Duke of Lancaster started its life as a passenger. This 100 year old ghost ship sit wedged in a muddy creek just outside of the Ohio river. A ship graveyard on the east coast of Turkey is where unwanted ships including massive luxury cruise liners are sent to be broken down for scrap metal.

A ghost ship filled with cannibal rats is floating somewhere off the coast of Scotland ready to crash ashore and unleash its disease-ridden cargo of starving rodents. 4 Doomed Field Trip 68-year-old Lee Joon-seok the captain of a South Korean ferry that capsized stood trial for gross negligence which claimed the lives of nearly 300 school children. CMV Magellan cruise ship also heading to the scrap yard in Alang India.

The largest cruise ship scrap yard is in Alang India and it recycles more than 50 percent of the worlds abandoned and decommissioned cruise ships. In 1998 the vessel elongated from 190 meters to almost 230. An explorer who entered an abandoned ship which sat untouched on the North Wales coast for three decades was stunned by what he found inside.

Hosting just under 800 passengers the R-class ships were a bit too small for mainstream cruise lines but too mainstream in design for luxury lines once they left the Renaissance fleet. The ship hit bottom so to speak in 2007 when the City of Alameda California officially declared it abandoned. The ghost ship formally know as the Circle Line V had led a full life of service before it was left abandoned.

The Irish Coastguard received a signal from the former Arctic cruise ship in March 2013 after two lifeboats reportedly fell off and triggered the warning signals from the ships emergency position-indicating radio beacon EPIRB according to which the Lyubov Orlova was heading east and was about 700 miles off the coast of Ireland. Her tonnage increased from 39172 gross tons to more than 50 thousand. And during the COVID-19.